Fuchs

Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs

Born: 5 May 1833 in Moschin (near Posen), Germany (now Poznan, Poland)
Died: 26 April 1902 in Berlin, Germany

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Fuchs worked on differential equations and the theory of functions. He studied at Berlin with Kummer and Weierstrass. It was Weierstrass who introduced him to function theory. In 1865 Fuchs studied nth order linear ordinary differential equations with complex functions as coefficients.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. E J Wilczynski, Obituary of Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1902), 46-49.
  3. J J Gray, Fuchs and the Theory of Differential Equations, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 10 (1984), 1-26. 
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